WorldWarII, also known as the Second WorldWar, was a mid-twentieth-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is generally considered the most costly and intense war in human history.

Many consider WorldWarII to be the only true worldwar due to the overwhelming number of nations involved and the extraordinary number of theatres—from Europe and the Soviet Union to North Africa, China, South East Asia and the Pacific.

Post–World WarII Europe was partitioned into Western and Soviet spheres of influence, the former undergoing economic reconstruction under the Marshall Plan and the latter becoming satellite states of the Soviet Union.

WorldWarIIWorldWarII was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb

WorldWarII, also known as the Second WorldWar, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is generally considered the most costly and intense war in human history.

The causes of WorldWarII are naturally a debated subject, but a common view, particularly among the allies in the early post-war years, tie them to the expansionism of Germany and Japan: Germany had lost wealth, power and status following the first worldwar and the expansion was to make Germany great again.

WorldWarII was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb.

WorldWarII, also known as the Second WorldWar, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is generally accepted as the largest and deadliest continuous war in human history and the first time that nuclear weapons were used against either military or civilian targets.

Post–World WarII Europe was partitioned into Western and Soviet spheres of influence, the former undergoing economic reconstruction under the Marshall Plan and the latter becoming satellite states of the Soviet Union.

WorldWarII was a global conflict that started in 7 July 1937 in Asia and 1 September 1939 in Europe and lasted until 1945, involving the majority of the world's states and every inhabited continent.

On which date the war began is also debated, cited as either the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, the Japanese invasion of China on 7 July 1937 (the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

The belligerents of the Second WorldWar are usually considered to belong to either of the two blocks: the Axis and the Allies.

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WorldWarII Clockwise from top: Allied landing on Normandy beaches on D-Day, the gate of a Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Red Army soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, and the Nagasaki atom bomb.

The immediate causes of WorldWarII are generally held to be the German invasion of Poland, and the Japanese attacks on China, the United States, and the British and Dutch colonies.

WorldWarII started after these aggressive actions were met with an official declaration of war, armed resistance or both.

WorldWarII was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives.

The war ended in Europe with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, but continued in Asia and the Pacific until the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the subsequent Japanese surrender on September 2 1945.

After the war, many high-ranking Germans were prosecuted for war crimes, as well as the mass murder of the Holocaust committed mainly on the area of General Government, in the Nuremberg trials.

WorldWarII may be the single most complicated conflict in all of history and it is therefore difficult to explain its origin.

Underlying Causes of WorldWarII Nationalism: Perhaps the greatest underlying factor causing the war, nationalism was the primary reason for German, Italian and Japanese aggression.

WorldWar I: The so-called War to End All Wars did not solve any of the problems of that had caused it; indeed, many scholars have begun to think of WorldWar I and II as WorldWar Part I and Part II.

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The Italian declaration of war in June 1940 challenged the British supremacy of the Mediterranean, hinged on Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria.

It was one of the bloodiest sieges of the war.

The last Allied conference of WorldWarII was held at the suburb of Potsdam, outside Berlin, from July 17 to August 2.

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After WorldWarII, Europe was informally split into Western and Soviet spheres of influence, which set the stage for the Cold War.

The North African war proved to be a disaster for Italy, and when the Allies invaded Sicily on July 10 in Operation Husky, capturing the island in a little over a month, the regime of Benito Mussolini collapsed.

It was one of the bloodiest sieges of the war.

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August 9, 1945]] WorldWarII was a global conflict that started on 7 July 1937 in Asia and 1 September 1939 in Europe and lasted until 1945, involving the majority of the world's countries and every inhabited continent.

The end of the War is also seen by many, as the end of Britain's position as a global Superpower and the start of the Cold War between the world's remaining two, the USA and USSR.

The Italian declaration of war in June 1940 challenged the British supremacy of the Mediterranean, hinged on Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria.

The North African war proved to be a disaster for Italy and when the Allies invaded Sicily on July 10 in Operation Husky, capturing the island in a little over a month, it caused the regime of Benito Mussolini to collapse.

The last Allied conference of WorldWarII was held at the suburb of Potsdam, outside Berlin, from July 17 to August 2.

WorldWarII resulted in the direct or indirect death of anywhere from 50 to 60 million or more people, over 3% of the world population at that time.

In Asia, Japan's efforts to become a world power and the rise of militarist leadership (in the 1930s the government in Japan was undermined as militarists rose to power and de facto gained totalitarian control) led to conflicts with first China and later the United States.

The end of WorldWarII is seen by many as the end of the United Kingdom's position as a global superpower and the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as the dominant powers in the world.

WorldWarII Clockwise from top: Allied landing on Normandy beaches on D-Day, the gate of a Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Red Army soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, the Nagasaki atom bomb, and the 1936 Nuremberg Rally.

WorldWarII (abbreviated WWII), or the Second WorldWar, was a worldwide conflict fought between the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers, from 1939 until 1945.

The war triggered an international outcry, and, on December 14, the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations.

In the east, Japan had, as early as the late nineteenth century, begun to spread out across Asia, brought about by conflict between traditional Japanese practices and changing social conditions associated with rapid industrialisation and modernisation.